Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-03-01

Managing Editor OF the State Series OF
School Textbook

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School Textbooks.
TBy an unfortunate displacement of
types the biographical sketch of Mr. Ray
mond, in a previous issue, was rendered
unintelligible, and is therefore corrected
an reproduced
This gentleman represents a line of
school teachers. For more than twenty
years both his father and his mother taught
country schools in st. Lawrence county,
New York, where he was born. He him
self is graduate of the college of the COM
mon school, with year at the old St. Law
renee Academy in Potsdam. In those DAYS
and in that country colleges were far apart,
and that his parents, being teachers, were
poor, goes without the saying. So young
Raymond worked on the farm in the sum-
mer and taught school in the winter, after
the fashion of the time and place, to get
himself year of academic training, which,
he says, consisted more of free browsing
among the books of the library than Of
systematic grubbing in Latin and Greek.
However, with what he had already ac-
quired at the common school. he picked up
enough of the classics and mathematics to
enable him in later years, by hard study,
to fit his classes for Harvard and Yale
without conditions. This, supplemented
by a three-years' course in the study of the
law, formed a better qualification for
SCHOOL, room work than he had anticipated
and his promotion in the line of education
al work in the State of Illinois, where he
now located, and where he found early and
warm friends among representative educa-
tors, was more rapid than he could have
expected, so that, within five years, he
found himself in receipt of offers of the
most prominent and Dest-paying positions
in the schools of the State. After thirteen
years of excessive application, devoting his
vacations to institute work and lectures
for which he seemed to develop an aptitude
his health became impaired and he en-
gagged in school book work with Harper &
Brothers, of New York. In connection
with this he continued his lectures at in
stitutes through the States of Kansas and
Nebraska for ten years, when he joined the
house of Bancroft d Co., in San Francisco,
having editorial charge of the new series
OF readers issued by them in 1884, and
continuing with them till the spring of
1885. Upon the Inauguration of work by
the State Board of Education, Mr.. Ray
mond was elected as managing editor
OF the series, being strongly recommended
by Hons. John SWEET, A. E. Kellogg, c. S.
Smith and others. After year and half
of service with the Board, Hon. w. T.
Welcker, State Superintendent and Secre-
tary of that body, who opposed the appoint
ment of Mr.. Raymond, thus writes in his
report; The Board, as soon as funds were
IN hand, proceeded to select a managing
editor of the entire SERIES They elected to
that important post w. H. " Raymond,
who, in every way, has proven to be the
right man in the right place." His ac-
quaintance with school books as student,
teacher, critic and editor have furnished
him special preparation for this work.
In conversation with Mr.. Raymond he was
asked if he had ever found the absence of
a diploma disadvantage to him. with
out question:" he replid, lit has shut me
out of some fields of educational work
fields in which specialties are taught to a
high degree. A man without college
diploma is limited to certain lines, but thew
are not so few nor so narrow that any
young teacher with good common school
education, good constitution, an honest
ambition and energy enough to make it
worth while to live at all, may not hopelto
take rank among leaders of the profession.
The two best know public school names in
the State to-day and for the last ten years,
represent this very class. But the diploma
is good thing to have in the family, and
when | married | made point of getting
"'O WIN uipioua, anu my Son went NE
one better all around by taking diploma
himself and wife with two. So now we
have enough to so round, but / am still
short"
" Do you think inheritance has anything
to do with your adaptation to teaching?"
was asked.
" have no doubt of il, and it has passed
down the line. Notwithstanding frequent
and emphatic declarations that he would
never be teacher, no sooner had he fin
ished his university course than the young
man who calls me father turned up in
structor in the University of California. |
presume the family will never wear out the
faint ~